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Microsoft Opens MSN Music Store

Posted by michael on from the this-way-to-the-egress dept.

pbranes writes "Microsoft has opened their online music store today with 1 million songs and it will be officially opened tomorrow when Windows Media Player 10 is released. Music costs $0.99 and $9.90 for albums ($0.09 less than iTunes). Also, music is at a higher quality - 160kbps VBR. You can browse the site with Mozilla, however, ActiveX is required for full functionality so IE is required to use the store. Also, Microsoft takes a hit at Apple for not licensing iPod functionality to third parties (kind of ironic when ActiveX is required to use the site).... If you are an iPod owner already and unhappy about this policy, you are welcome to send feedback to Apple requesting that they change their interoperability policy."

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  1. All this proves by tkrotchko · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    All this proves is that proprietary is bad regardless if its MS or Apple.

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    You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
  2. Not quality.... by jkabbe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Also, music is at a higher quality - 160kbps VBR.

    What he means to say is that the music is at a higher data rate. Quality is dependant upon the codec AND the data rate.